Faculty Profile - Edna Negron

Professor Edna Negron is an accomplished journalist and teacher, having won the Henry Bischoff Teaching Excellence Award. What her peers may not know is that Professor Negron is using technology to teach digital journalism in and outside of the classroom.

She has adapted her instruction of journalism to reflect modern practices in the field. This means that students are using smartphones to record video and audio, write and edit stories, update websites, and leverage social media to promote new projects and ideas. As an example, check out the website titled “Occupied Space,” created and launched in Fall, 2015 by students in Professor Negron’s Senior Project in Journalism course: http://occupiedspace.us

In Spring, 2015, Professor Negron launched a new course titled Mobile Journalism. The course explores various types of multimedia stories that students can report, write, and produce using their smartphones. Students use their mobile devices as the primary tool, and experiment with specific gear and apps as “mojos” in the field do to cover stories. Professor Negron received a grant from the Teaching and Learning with Technology Roundtable (TLTR) to secure sample specialized gear, including cases, lenses, and microphones.

Professor Negron says: “The challenge of teaching digital journalism today is exposing students to new storytelling tools and techniques while keeping them grounded in the basics of good reporting and writing. It’s still about the story.”

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